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Dirk den Hartog

Dirk den Hartog taught cultural studies in the Humanities Department, Footscray Institute of Technology.

Dirk den Hartog reviews ‘The Wreck of Western Culture: Humanism revisited’ by John Carroll

October 2004, no. 265 01 October 2004
His handsome and expanded edition of John Carroll’s Humanism (1993) is given added weight by an epilogue about the meaning of September 11. It can now be read alongside his recent The Western Dreaming (2001), which tried to chart a way out of the spiritual atrophy of late modernity in which, as this book argues, the unfolding of humanism from the Renaissance on has left us – with its egoistic ... (read more)

Dirk den Hartog reviews 'Life Rarely Tells: An autobiography' by Jack Lindsay

August 1982, no. 43 01 August 1982
One heady day in the mid-1920s, sculptor and Lindsayite recruit Guy Lynch (brother of the elegaic subject of Slessor’s ‘Five Bells’), held forth in a pub at Circular Quay on his plan for Sydney to become an Hellenic city. The Quay itself he saw as a magnificent ampitheatre for the incarnation of the Lindsay group’s Nietzschean dream of Dionysian joy, as revealed in the vital art affirmed a ... (read more)